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On the one hand, Meryl came to be a consultant, and on the other hand, she said that the dishes made by Grace could help her gain weight. These contradictory statements made the director Nora Ephron feel a little uncertain.

But it's a little bit of a no-brainer, and when Grace really put on makeup and appeared in front of people again, Nora Ephron didn't think about Grace's cooking skills anymore.

After Grace took a trial shot, Nora Ephron knew she hadn't cast the wrong actor, and she had hit the jackpot.

It's actually not so right to say that, but before the filming, Nora Ephron was still a little worried. After all, Grace was going to play an ordinary person who was nearly 30 years old and lived a life of nothing.

But now, in the camera, Grace is the Julie she wrote in the script.From her demeanor to her speaking movements and even her eyes, she no longer looks like a 21-year-old young woman, but a Julie who has been smoothed over by life and lost her passion for life.

What does it look like, and when Grace spoke her lines, she also used the accent of Lower Manhattan, New York, instead of her original Oxford accent. Thinking of this, Nora Ephron suddenly understood Meryl Ster Rip, this evergreen tree who has already been famous in the film industry, why does he treat Grace Green like an elder treats his favorite junior? It is actually like treating an heir, who also has outstanding acting skills, and in many ways is like Very much her own heir.

Nora Ephron understands it this way, and the filming is still going smoothly until Julie, played by Grace, is encouraged by her husband Eric to start copying Julia Child's "Controlling the French" The Art of Cooking." Cooking.It's time to personally verify Grace's own quick cooking skills,——

The two heroines in "Julie and Julia" are connected by food, so there will be a lot of food and the production process of food in the movie. In order to make these scenes feel real and reliable to the audience, and to use this To convey more real emotions, so most of the process of making food, the director has agreed in advance to make it real, so there is a crash course for Grace.

Also, on the set, the crew will also prepare a large freezer to store the ingredients needed for filming, and also equipped with various kitchen utensils needed for cooking. On this point, the crew is specially consulted A French chef.

In order not to waste too much film and ingredients, it is necessary to conduct a rehearsal before the actual shooting.

The next three dishes, artichokes with hollandaise sauce, creamy mushroom chicken, and poached eggs, were tried out in the off-set kitchen on set before filming.

There are quite a few curious cast and crew members, probably because the usual Grace gives people the kind of non-eating "earthly fireworks" - who knows if she lives on nutrient solution, is she an alien after all - too impressed Yes, there is another point: "So handsome."

"If she becomes a chef, I will definitely go to support her every day, even if the food tastes bad."

"It looks very stylish."

Chris Messina, who played the role of Julie's husband Eric in the play, heard the emotion of several female make-up artists onlookers, and couldn't help getting a black line. Why does it feel that the gender of the crowd is not right? .He thought so, and glanced over there. Grace, who hadn't put on makeup, was wearing a chef's uniform. That kind of pure white chef's uniform made her feel like a white suit inexplicably. This was probably an illusion. People feel that she doesn't seem to be cooking, but she seems to be walking on the catwalk. It doesn't seem right. She is doing experiments, yes, she is doing experiments.But come to think of it, Grace is a scientist herself, so there's nothing wrong with feeling that way.

It's just that she is cooking now.

Chris Messina was also aroused by curiosity, so he found a place to watch.

Artichokes with hollandaise sauce, this dish is really not complicated.

Cut off the stems of the artichokes, put them in water with lemon juice and boil over high heat, OK; for hollandaise sauce, melt the butter and beat into the egg yolks and beat vigorously.

Meryl waited expectantly by the side, which somewhat reassured director Ephron, at least it wouldn't be a bad performance.In fact, Grace's performance can't be described as bad at all. How should I put it, she looks like a professional chef. Let's say she squeezed lemon juice-Grace picked up a small lemon, a bright yellow small lemon Making her fingertips shine slightly, she made a cross knife on the small lemon, and then pressed her fingers hard, and all the lemon juice was squeezed out, leaving only the shriveled skin.

After a whole set of procedures, there is no sloppiness, it is so crisp and neat, like flowing clouds and flowing water.

Everyone else was taken aback, they just thought it was just a squeeze of a lemon, and it didn't need to be so pretty, right?Try it at home too.

Meryl was not polite to Grace at all, nor was she polite to the little lemons prepared by the crew, she begged from the side: "Grace, I'm thirsty, I want lemon juice."

Grace then took out a small lemon and a glass, and made it in the same way as before. The light yellow liquid filled the transparent glass, and there was some fruit puree in it, which looked very beautiful.

Meryl drank with a satisfied face, and director Ephron was a little thirsty, but she was too embarrassed to ask like Meryl, so let's just watch Grace continue cooking.

Gradually, the director saw something was wrong, especially when Grace beat the egg yolks into the melted cream.Most people will inevitably bring out part of the egg white when they only need to use the egg yolk. After all, the egg yolk is not separated from the egg white in the egg, or it is not on the side, but Grace cracked an egg. I know how she did it. When the egg yolk was beaten, although there was a little egg white, the whole egg yolk was definitely separated from the egg white.

Nora Ephron didn't know what to say for a while. Grace started to beat butter and egg yolks with a mixer. The angle and strength of her stirring each time can be said to be exactly the same, because the arc of the arm shaking is the same. That feeling Just like a precision instrument.

But you have to admit, it was pleasing to the eye.

Nora Ephron couldn't help looking at Meryl, and Meryl understood what Nora Ephron wanted to express, and she said righteously: "I can assure you, Grace is in a She had never been exposed to cooking a month ago. Well, she was not so good-looking when she first learned, the main reason is that the French chef who taught her was not so good-looking."

Nora Ephron was even more confused.

Meryl thought for a while and then said: "Grace is not learning how to cook, she is just imitating it, she has a vivid memory. She can imitate it after seeing someone else cook it once, and the taste is almost exactly the same, isn't it amazing? "

Nora Ephron: "...and then?"

"I don't know. After we showed her all the dishes involved in the script, she worked in her laboratory for a few days, and it became like this. I think she probably got it from her The parent star has downloaded food science, oh, and culinary engineering." Meryl still had a serious face when she said this, and the corners of Nora Ephron's mouth couldn't help twitching, Streep Don't be so naughty, ma'am, okay?

"You're kidding." Grace, who was about to whip cream to make Creamy Mushroom Chicken, said.

—Meryl and Nora Ephron are talking right next to the sink, and Grace is right there, okay?

Meryl waved her hands after hearing Grace's evaluation: "Oh, honey, I'm complimenting you. By the way, I want poached eggs that are medium rare."

Nora Ephron: "..." She only heard that beef/lamb chops should be medium rare and fried eggs, but she had never heard that poached eggs should be medium rare.

"I'm kidding," Meryl said with a hearty laugh, changing her accent to the American English with a French accent she was consolidating.Ignoring the director with a black line on his face, she talked to Grace like this again: "Grace, how do you say the recipe for poached eggs in French?"

Grace ignored her.

Meryl pouted, she started by herself, and then made a mistake, Grace couldn't help correcting her, and said the original sentence in French again.

The French always say that French is the most beautiful language in the world. Of course, there are elements of exaggeration in it. Of course, the French will not admit it, but this sentence is not without reason.When fluent French is spoken, no matter what it is saying, it always gives people the feeling that the other party is saying "I love you". It is no less lethal to some people than speaking English with an Oxford accent.

"The two of them sing very well, and "Mamma Mia" is very eye-catching."

"You should buy the Mamma Mia soundtrack, where Dr. Green sang five songs and made a music video for 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (The Man in the Night)."

"Really? I'll go buy it after work is over."

"Then you have to hurry up, it's a hot seller."

This is true, as "Mamma Mia" hits theaters around the world—although "Mamma Mia" has been released in North America for a month now, the charm of this singing and dancing movie is unstoppable. The box office is [-] million. Overseas, "Mamma Mia" is more attractive. The overseas box office has accumulated to [-] million U.S. dollars. Its original soundtrack is also selling well, and its sales hit the Billboard US album list last week. It is worth mentioning that "Mamma Mia" is the ninth movie soundtrack album to top the US album chart in ten years.

This is off topic, let's go back to "Julie and Julia".

When Grace finished the dish, Nora Ephron tasted delicious, but the problem came, Julie was not a professional chef, she was just an amateur, of course she couldn't cook like Grace.

Regarding the director's concerns, Ms. Meryl Streep, Grace's consultant, also said, "It will be no problem for Grace to learn how her assistant Emily cooks when filming."

Is this really okay?Nora Ephron is still a bit imaginative, in fact, this is no problem at all: when Grace is in the small kitchen of Jolie's house when the official shooting, the performance is completely different from the 'kitchen' on the set. The machine-like feeling disappeared, and it was very life-like, and director Nora Ephron tasted the final dishes out of curiosity after filming, and even the taste was different.

Nora Ephron felt that she probably really couldn't understand the learning style of high-IQ geniuses. Then, she also felt that it would be better not to worry about this problem, and everything would be ok if the shooting went well.

The filming couldn't be smoother. It was originally planned to take five weeks of filming, because the process was a little faster, and it took four weeks to film to the end. In this month, the entire crew except Grace was puffy - the plot required , Julie has been eating and eating every day since cooking, and because she is an office worker who has not strengthened exercise, it is strange that she is not fat, so when she puts on makeup, the makeup artist draws more rounded lines on Grace's face ——Everyone else is really fat.

The female cast and crew in the crew have a love-hate relationship with Grace, especially the few who took the video of Grace cooking without makeup.In the beginning, I became a fan, and I inevitably took out the video to relish it, and then the more I relished it, the more hungry I felt, and I inevitably ate and ate when I was hungry... As a result, Grace didn't get fat, but they were so fat that they couldn't bear to look directly at them up.

But that's inevitable with food movies, isn't it?

……

Julie insisted on learning how to cook from Julia's food book every day, and posted her thoughts on the blog. At the beginning, there was no reader, but gradually there were readers, and there were many readers.During the period, Julie also thought about giving up, but her idol Julia inspired her in the dark, and at the end of the story, hard work paid off. She and her story were featured in the New York Times, publishers and talk shows Invitations flooded in, and she succeeded.

Later, she and Eric made a pilgrimage to Julia's Cambridge kitchen at the Smithsonian.Take a photo with Julia's photo, and say to her piously: "I love you, Julia." You taught me to have a correct attitude towards cooking, people around me, and life.

Finally, good appetite.

At this point, Grace's part is completely over, and then the crew will move to the set they have set up in New Jersey to shoot the part of Meryl's part.After the filming of the scenes is finished, Grace needs to come back to dub in post-production, and there are some psychological activities for Julie's blog, but for now, "Julie and Julia" is fine for Grace. It's over.

And have you ever said that Grace can't be idle? She always finds something for herself to do, and this time it's almost the same.

As Sterling drove her back from the set to the hotel the crew rented, Grace suddenly said, "The parking ticket on the windshield of that car was a long time ago."

Sterling responded: "Then?"

Grace continued: "The Iranian guy who opened the shop across the way didn't even notice."

Sterling was silent for two seconds before speaking: "I just want to know if they have anything to do with you?"

Grace thought for a while and said, "I'm not familiar with the NSA (National Security Agency), and I don't know the Iranians they are following, so it doesn't matter."

Sterling didn't realize what Grace meant when he said 'NSA' and 'concern' at first, but after driving out of that block, he slowly came back to it.He had mixed feelings for a while, and after a long time, he said: "I want to know when you observed it?"

Grace replied truthfully: "On the third day of filming."

Sterling: "... Then why didn't you say it then? No, you shouldn't say it now, I don't want to know at all, okay?"

- It's too late.